With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.

  • -- Frederick Soddy 弗雷德里克·索迪

在我们对自然力量的全部掌握中,我们坚持这样一种观点,即为生存而斗争是生命的一个永久和必要条件。

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I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

我可以用铅笔画出运动的物体,但如果我在写作,我就会纠结于如何去写。那个男孩跑过走廊?男孩飞快地跑下走廊。男孩跑下大理石走廊?我为这些话而苦恼。所以我的编辑工作非常努力。我很幸运有她。

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

没有一个社会能够消除人类的悲伤,没有一个政治制度能够把我们从生活的痛苦、对死亡的恐惧和对绝对的渴望中解救出来。是人的条件决定了社会的条件,而不是社会条件决定人的条件。

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

啊,掌握……当一个人终于掌握了一套新的技能时,那是一种多么令人满足的感觉啊……然后看到新门下的光明,这些技能可以打开,即使另一扇门正在关闭。

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

掌握基本技能是非常必要的,因为到你毕业的时候,无论是本科还是研究生,那个领域都已经和你上学的第一天完全不同了。

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

每个人都必须有他的自我;对他来说,这比面包更重要;如果他不能在现有的机构内找到这样做的空间,他很可能会惹麻烦。

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

我们谈论我们对自然的掌握,这听起来很伟大;但事实是,我们尊重自己,首先,适应她的方式。

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

有一种情况比失明更糟糕,那就是看到一些不存在的东西。

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

我的目标是把青年教师和老年教师联系起来,重新点燃他们的奋斗意识。